Politics Today with Fall 2022 CPF Fellows Ira Reiner and Noelia Rodriguez

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

CPF Co-Directors Bob Shrum and Mike Murphy join two of our Fall 2022 CPF Fellows, Ira Reiner and Noelia Rodriguez, to discuss current events, their careers, and their upcoming USC study groups.

Featuring:

Ira Reiner: Former District Attorney for Los Angeles County; Fall 2022 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Noelia Rodriguez: Former Press Secretary and Communications Director to Laura Bush; Chief of Staff, Metrolink; Fall 2022 Fellow, USC Center for the Political Future
Bob Shrum: Director, Center for the Political Future; Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics, USC Dornsife
Mike Murphy: Co-Director, Center for the Political Future; NBC Political Analyst

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we respect
0:22.0	each other and respect the truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.4	I'm Bob Schrum, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornside.
0:34.8	Welcome to this first summer edition of the Bullock Pulpit from the center. I'm here
0:39.7	with my co-director, Mike Murphy. We're going to talk with our guests for 40 minutes or so,
0:45.7	and then turn to questions from you. Mike will ask them when we get to that point. Let me introduce
0:50.9	our guests. Ira Reiner headed the world's largest local prosecutor's office
0:55.8	as the 39th District Attorney of Los Angeles. He also served as L.A. City Attorney, L.A. City
1:03.1	Controller, L.A. City Fire Commissioner, and President and CEO of the L.A. Homeland Security Advisory Council.
1:12.8	We're proud to have to have a join us as a fellow this fall to lead a study group on police and prosecutorial misconduct. Noelia Rodriguez
1:20.4	served as press secretary and director of communications for First Lady Laura Bush and his deputy
1:27.3	mayor for Dick Reardon here in Los Angeles.
1:30.7	She's currently the chief of staff at MetroLink, Southern California's regional rail system.
1:36.6	So let me turn right away to a question about local politics because it was Tip O'Neill who
1:42.6	popularized the phrase, all politics is local and a lot of it does seem to be local right now.
1:49.3	Let's start with the mayor's race where billionaire developer Rick Caruso is competing against congresswoman carrying bass to be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
2:00.0	What should they be doing in their campaigns?
2:03.9	How do you handicap the race and will funlessness and crime still be the dominant issues?
2:09.9	Ira, you want to start off?
2:11.5	Well, thank you.
2:12.8	Yogi Berra is alleged to have said that the hardest thing to predict is the future.
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